DeMARTINI ET AL: DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS OF QUEENFISH 



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ADULT FEMALE QUEENFISH 



SIZE FREQUENCIES 



DAY 5-lOM DEPTH N-3292 NIGHT 5-27M DEPTH N-1288 



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STANDARD LENGTH (MM) 



Figure 4. — Relative length-frequency distributions of (A) immature, (B) adult male, and (C) adult female queenfish caught 

 during the day in the shallow depth block versus during the night in all depth blocks pooled (see Figure 1 caption for details). 



Table 3. — Results of Kolmogorov-Smirnov Two Sample comparisons of the diel- and 

 depth-specific length-frequency distributions of queenfish caught during the onshore, 

 breeding versus onshore, nonbreeding periods of year. Qualitative results of compari- 

 sons are noted. 



queenfish of both sexes, as well as immatures, fed 

 to large extents on prey (Table 4) whose centers of 

 abundance were shallow (see Discussion and Con- 

 clusions). For immatures such major prey included 

 holoplankton {Labidocera trispinosa) and mero- 

 planktonic cumaceans (primarily Diastylopsis 

 tenuis) (Table 4). Diastylopsis tenuis and other 

 nearshore crustaceans also comprised nontrivial 

 fractions of the diet of adult queenfish d\iring the 



periods of onshore depth distribution (Table 4). 

 Diastylopsis tenuis, a night-active meroplankter 

 characteristic of the shallow region (see below), 

 also occurred in the stomachs of fish collected at 

 shallow depths during the day and during the 

 night at middepths. Hence we feel justified to 

 characterize the queenfish diet using data for both 

 diel periods and depth blocks pooled in Table 4. 

 State of prey digestion, though, tended to be less at 



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